ECA criticism
Very strong criticism from the European Cockpit Association. From an article in today’s Times...
ECA President, Captain Otjan de Bruijn, said that it is “an extremely long delay for publishing a report” and that during these 4 years “possible safety-critical flaws have remained unaddressed - something we are quite alarmed about.......any deficiencies that have been identified in the accident investigation must be made public, out in the open so that they can be fixed swiftly”.
This next bit is particularly damning.....
“We are not aware of any other similar cases across Europe of a re-examination of the technical work of an independent technically qualified organisation by a body with limited expertise in aviation accident investigations.
This rare procedure(the appointment of a review board) could be a slippery slope allowing for undue influence over the investigation process and its findings, and clearly has resulted in an unhelpful delay in publication of the report”.